Saudi Arabia's OPEC governor Mohammed al-Madi said on Sunday that he believed it would be difficult for oil to reach a price range of $100-120 per barrel again.
India is set to import 8 million barrels of Iraqi oil to fill its first strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), taking advantage of cheap prices and lending some support to a market suffering from oversupply.
Oil producers in Oman, including majority state-owned Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), are resorting to cost-cutting measures in view of the plunging crude prices in the international market.
Saudi Arabia's PetroRabigh, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical, has signed loans worth 19.4 billion riyals ($5.2 billion) for the expansion of its petrochemicals complex, it said on Tuesday.
The North Sea, which brought upheaval to global oil markets in the 1980s just as shale has in this decade, is desperately seeking tax relief in Wednesday’s British budget.
Kuwait has sought help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to introduce corporate taxes in a bid to diversify revenue in the face of falling oil prices, a senior government official said.